Social and Behavioral Sciences
Websites
Participedia
Participedia is a tool for strengthening democracy. Based on a
wiki platform, its main content consists of user-generated articles
which describe and assess participatory governance throughout the world.
E-Reference
Gale Virtual Reference
A searchable collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Sage E-Reference
An online collection of reference titles from Sage Publications. Users may search across all titles, or browse by subject.
News Articles
Nexis Uni
Full text of over 5,000 newspapers, trade publications, legal
periodicals, professional journals and news transcripts.
Arizona News
Includes full text of articles, editorials, notices, and obituaries from the Arizona Republic.
AltPress Watch
(1970+) Full text database of selected independent newspapers,
magazines, and journals of the alternative press. Provides an
alternative to mainstream media perspectives on local, national, and
international issues.
Access World News
Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and
perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 500 international sources,
each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on
local, regional and world issues.
NewsBank Newsfile
(1991+) Provides fulltext access to selected articles from over 500 U.
S. and Canadian newspapers, wire services, and broadcast news
transcripts.
Google News
Use this service to set up an alert to receive e-mails with links to news articles on your topic.
Research Databases
General Political Science Law Related Disciplines News
General and Multi-Disciplinary
Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCOhost)
(1975+) Covers a wide range of academic subjects including criminal justice. Features full text for selected journals, abstracts and indexing for over 3,600 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor.
Google Scholar
Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
SAGE Premier
Includes journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine, providing online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. Specifically social sciences journals in the following areas are available: urban studies; political sciences, criminology; communication; sociology and psychology.
Political Science Databases
Political Science: A Sage Full Text Collection
Includes the full-text of 25 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies,Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.
PAIS International - Public Affairs Information Service
(1972+) Index to political, economic, & social issues in current debate. Covers public & social policy literature of business, economics, finance, law, international relations,public administration, government, political science, & other social sciences.
Worldwide Political Sciences Abstracts
Provides Information and research within the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy
Law Journal and Legal News Databases
Hein Online: Modern Link to Legal History
Includes collection of legal periodicals.
Nexis Uni
Full text of selected newspapers, trade publications, legal periodicals, and legal scholarly journals. Includes company directories, financial reports, quotations, almanac, federal/state laws, regulations, court opinions, accounting statements/guidelines, & news transcripts.
Lexis Nexis State Capitol
LexisNexis State Capital is an online service providing access to state government information. It includes legislative information (status of bills, full text of bills, legislative calendars), state statutes, full text of state regulations, information about state legislators and their staffs, and news sources for information on state issues for all 50 states.
Related Disciplines
SOCindex
SocINDEX™ with Full Text is a social sciences research database, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines. It offers in-depth coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.
Criminal Justice Abstracts
(1968+) Covers major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. Includes informative summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided.
Sociological Abstracts
(1963+) Covers theoretical & applied sociology, social science, & policy science. Includes sociological aspects of anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, family studies, health, racial interactions, social psychology, social work, urban studies, etc.